A pastel landscape of grass-covered hills framing a rocky outcropping, with a striped survey barrier visible in the gap between them. Leon inscribed the sheet directly with handwritten text, including the phrase that gives the work its title — “somewhere below this line the experience tapers off” — along with a date reading January 1977 and what appears to be a series number. The pairing of observed landscape with inscribed language is consistent with Leon’s practice in this period, when pastel and charcoal drawings ran alongside his outdoor site installations and frequently incorporated text directly into the image.